2010/09/06: IndiaTimes: Hope of deal in Cancun fades as rich break vowHope of progress on a global climate deal at the year-end Cancun summit is rapidly dimming with rich countries backtracking on their commitment to provide climate funds. Finance is a key issue for rebuilding trust among developing and developed countries. The two-day informal Geneva Dialogue on Climate Finance held late last week focused on sources of long-term climate finance, particularly the role of public and private funds. The developing world is concerned about the increased emphasis by industrialised countries on private sources and markets for climate funds. There is hesitation on the part of the rich countries to commit public funds on account of global financial crisis and the ensuing austerity cuts.

2010/09/08: NewScientist: Bees and climate change cleared in pollination mystery[…]Many studies have shown that populations of pollinators are falling, but Thomson’s is the best evidence yet that plants’ ability to reproduce is being affected. Thomson’s study site is pristine, local bees are not in decline and climate change does not appear to be affecting seasons at the site, leaving researchers casting around for an explanation.

2010/09/09: PostMedia: Global warming is a winnable war, with proper planning: StudyHumans have yet to push the planet past the point of no return when it comes to global warming, according to the surprising results of a new study. It says that if people stopped building carbon dioxide-emitting power plants, factories, vehicles and homes today and allowed existing CO2-emitters to live out their normal lives, catastrophic climate change could likely be avoided.

2010/09/07: DerSpiegel: After the Flood — ‘We Are Grateful for Any Help’The scope of the disaster is becoming more and more visible as flood levels fall along the Indus River in Pakistan. In the Swat Valley, controlled by the Taliban only last year, US troops are now helping the victims. It remains unclear as to who will gain their trust — the government, the West or the extremists.

2010/09/07: CBC: Jolie visits Pakistan’s flood victimsAmerican movie star Angelina Jolie met flood victims in northwestern Pakistan and appealed to the international community Tuesday to provide aid needed to help the country recover from its worst natural disaster. The flow of aid money has stalled in recent days, and officials expressed hope the two-day visit by Jolie — who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the UN’s refugee agency — will persuade other countries and individuals to open their wallets.

2010/09/06: BBC: Latest Pakistan floods prompt fresh exodus from townsAt least 350,000 people are on the move in Sindh, fleeing the new flood surge Several hundred thousand more people have been forced to flee towns and villages in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province amid fresh flooding. Water is gushing towards Dadu district after a breach in the Toori dam in the north of the already flood-hit region. In the past weeks all but four of Sindh’s 23 districts have been deluged.

2010/09/08: TDG: Arctic Melt Extreme in 2010, AgainThe extent of Arctic sea ice is reaching the third-lowest point ever recorded, as the annual summer melt slows. Both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route are open, and ships are navigating the once ice-locked channels.

2010/09/08: PostMedia: Another big-ice Arctic thaw, say expertsArctic Ocean sea ice has experienced another severe meltdown this year, with the approaching end-of-summer minimum representing the third-biggest thaw since satellite monitoring began about 30 years ago. This year’s retreat from a winter maximum of about 15 million square kilometres to a September coverage area of just five million square kilometres also means that the four greatest melts since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s have occurred in the past four years.

2010/09/10: CNN: ‘Manhattan’ ice island splits in twoSatellite images show ice island has broken in two – Original piece broke off Petermann Glacier in early August – Ice island moved into Nares Strait in early September – Scientists interested in the impact of its departure on the remaining ice

2010/09/08: EurActiv: Norway, Russia seal Arctic border accord175,000 square kilometres of previously-disputed territory was finally carved up between Norway and Russia on Monday (6 September), after 40 years of negotiations with regard to exploiting the area for its oil and gas drilling potential. The area mainly covered the Barents Sea, preventing the commercial exploitation of oil and gas resources in a fossil fuel-rich area without being under clear international jurisdiction. A ceremony will take place in Murmansk in Russia on 15 September when the two countries sign a treaty agreeing to the final delineation of their Arctic maritime border, according to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Detailed rules on possible crossings of the line by oil or gas deposits will still have to be ratified by the two countries’ legislative assemblies.

2010/09/06: Reuters: Norway, Russia to sign final Arctic border dealNorway and Russia have agreed to a final delineation of their Arctic maritime border and will sign a treaty next week, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. In April, Stoltenberg and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an initial agreement on the border after four decades of negotiations, paving the way to open the potentially oil- and gas-rich region for offshore exploration.

2010/09/07: CBC: Food crisis claims disputed by UN agencyThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is downplaying fears of a global food crisis despite rioting and protests over the rising cost of food. A widespread drought in Russia, the world’s No. 3 wheat exporter, is blamed for a drop in wheat production which has led to spiralling worldwide grain prices. Flooding in Pakistan, a severe drought in Syria, and traders speculating on food prices have also contributed to a food shortage and higher prices. The assistant director general of economic and social development at the UN [Hafez Ghanem] says what the world is seeing now is market volatility and turbulence, not a crisis.

2010/09/08: BNet: Food Stamp Participation Climbs 10%[…]26 million in September 2007, 31 million by September 2008, and in June 2010, the most recent report, 41 million people in 19 million households. Thirteen percent of the population, or more than one in eight people.

2010/09/10: SeedDaily: Major risks seen in large farmland salesLarge-scale disposal of farmland by governments carries potential risks for their communities and the environment and will build economic and social pressures as new corporate or foreign state owners move in, a World Bank report warned. Drawing on firsthand data from 14 countries, the report followed persistent reports of large-scale farmland acquisitions by foreign investors, including governments. China was reported to be in the forefront of foreign investors snapping up large tracts of farmland in Africa and Latin America in outright purchases or long-term lease. Corporate giants from North America were also seen behind the moves.

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

2010/09/07: PhysOrg: CIMAS, NOAA research conduct innovative investigations to study Hurricane EarlOver the last week, as Hurricane Earl threatened the east coast of the United States, hurricane scientists from NOAA Research’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and colleagues from the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) conducted a total of 18 hurricane hunter research flights, including the first ever flight by the unmanned NASA Global Hawk over a hurricane.

2010/09/07: BBC: GOCE gravity satellite ‘caught the cold’Europe’s gravity probe, GOCE, was knocked offline because some of its onboard systems got too cold as the satellite circled the Earth. The spacecraft is on a mission to make the most precise maps yet of how gravity varies across the globe. But when a fault appeared in its only functional computer, the flow of science data to the ground stopped. Controllers managed to recover the situation only when they turned the heat up inside the satellite.

2010/09/06: PhysOrg: A dimmer view of EarthWhen Stanford climate scientist Christopher Field looks at visual feeds from a satellite monitoring deforestation in the Amazon basin, he sees images streaked with white lines devoid of data. The satellite, Landsat 7, is broken. And it’s emblematic of the nation’s battered satellite environmental monitoring program. The bad news: It’s only going to get worse, unless the federal agencies criticized for their poor management of the satellite systems over the past decade stage a fast turnaround. Many, however, view that prospect as a long shot. “I would say our ability to observe the Earth from space is at grave risk of dying from neglect,” said Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.

2010/09/06: PhysOrg: Carbon mapping breakthroughBy integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high-resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices. These new maps pave the way for accurate monitoring of carbon storage and emissions for the proposed United Nations initiative on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

2010/09/10: ABC(Au): SCU holds coral reef conferenceThreats to the world’s coral reefs and ways to avert them will be under the spotlight in Coffs Harbour this weekend. More than 130 of the world’s leading experts on coral reefs will present their latest findings at the Australian Coral Reef Society Conference. The conference starts tonight and runs until Sunday at Southern Cross University’s Marine Science Centre.

2010/09/11: SciDaily: Research Shows Continued Decline of Oregon’s Largest GlacierAn Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. The findings are consistent with glacial retreat all over the world and provide some of the critical data needed to help quantify the effects of global change on glacier retreat and associated sea level rise.

2010/09/12: CNN: Tidal bell takes toll of rising sea levelsTidal bell placed in the banks of London’s River Thames will sound at high tide – UK sculptor, Marcus Vergette hopes the bell will reinforce or relationship with environment – Thames bell is third to be installed in the UK – Sculptor hopes to place bells on 12 coastal sites

2010/08/23: NERC:PEO: Experiment Earth?Geoengineering, which aims to slow down or reverse climate change, is a hot topic. But what do people really think of it? Peter Hurrell describes NERC’s recent efforts to find out.

2010/09/10: BWeek: UN Risks ‘Huge Mistake’ in Carbon-Trading Probe: Energy MarketsA United Nations investigation into alleged improper claims for hydrofluorocarbon-pollution credits threatens to choke off investment in projects to curb emissions, according to Bill Clinton’s former adviser on global warming. UN regulators froze new credits as they began a probe on July 30 into allegations by CDM Watch, an environmental lobby group, that some plants emitting hydrofluorocarbons were unfairly exploiting the system. Should the inquiry lead to new limits on expected credits, investors would abandon the UN market, the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas program, said Dirk Forrister, head of Clinton’s 1997 task force on climate. “There is a possibility of a retroactive change, and that would be a huge mistake,” said Forrister, now a managing director at Natsource LLC, a New York investment manager that has profited from HFC-destruction projects.

2010/09/06: CBC: EU ministers to discuss bank taxEuropean Union finance ministers are set to discuss the possibility of introducing a levy on banks and whether a tax on financial transactions could stave off another banking crisis, when they meet in Brussels Tuesday.

2010/09/08: WVNS: Rockefeller Tells W.Va. Not to Deny Global WarmingThe senator is a supporter of the evidence pointing to global warming, feeling some need to be open to the science.U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu joined Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Wednesday to tout technology that promises to bury greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants underground, but not before the senator criticized some people in his home state for denying global warming.[…]“People think they are protecting coal by pretending climate change doesn’t exist or that (by saying) carbon capture and storage is not needed,” he said. “But burying one’s head in the sand is not a solution.”

2010/09/06: PhysOrg: A dimmer view of EarthWhen Stanford climate scientist Christopher Field looks at visual feeds from a satellite monitoring deforestation in the Amazon basin, he sees images streaked with white lines devoid of data. The satellite, Landsat 7, is broken. And it’s emblematic of the nation’s battered satellite environmental monitoring program. The bad news: It’s only going to get worse, unless the federal agencies criticized for their poor management of the satellite systems over the past decade stage a fast turnaround. Many, however, view that prospect as a long shot. “I would say our ability to observe the Earth from space is at grave risk of dying from neglect,” said Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.

2010/09/08: TEC: It’s The Real Thing: The Power of KochWe are at a critical juncture, as a backlash appears to be derailing action on climate change. If progressive groups want to address this threat, we need to understand the interests, strategies, and cultural politics at play.

2010/09/11: CasperStarTrib: Governor: Wyoming can’t control greenhouse gasesGov. Dave Freudenthal this week told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that Wyoming cannot implement that agency’s “Tailoring Rule” in regard to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. EPA is preparing rules for how it will impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions. For now, the agency is targeting facilities that emit 25,000 tons or more per year, requiring those facilities to obtain special permits. Such a review typically results in requiring that a facility install “best available control technology” – in this case for greenhouse gases. The Tailoring Rule describes which facilities would be exempt from such reviews, such as farms, restaurants and other small facilities. It’s an attempt to focus on the nation’s largest industrial sources of greenhouse gases. But Freudenthal says an anti-Kyoto Protocol law, inserted by the Legislature into the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act in 1999, prevents the state from participating in the regulation of greenhouse gases — even when it comes to describing which facilities might be spared from regulation.

2010/09/06: Herald: Collision courseFor months it has been discussed behind closed doors. It is one of the most important policy documents produced by the Scottish government, and now it has come out of the shadows. The “proposals and policies” report leaked to the Sunday Herald outlines how ministers plan to meet their ambitious target of a 42% cut in climate pollution by 2020. The report contains more than 30 specific measures across several areas of policy, all designed to reduce the emissions that are helping to trigger floods, storms and droughts around the world. It is, by any standards, a hugely ambitious venture that has already received many bouquets and brickbats. It gives a taste of the many battles to come, if the government is serious about making Scotland a truly low-carbon economy.

2010/09/06: EarthTimes: Eco-lobby vows fight as Merkel lauds energy ‘revolution’Berlin – Germany’s anti-nuclear movement Monday vowed to fight on against plans to allow atomic energy plants to run up to 2050, as Chancellor Angela Merkel lauded her government’s new energy strategy as a “revolution.” “Our energy supply will be the most efficient and the most environmentally friendly in the world,” Merkel said. On Sunday the cabinet reached a late-night deal which would see the country’s 17 nuclear plants run, on average, 12 years longer than planned, with some remaining in production until well into the 2030s.

2010/09/06: WNN: Nuclear a cash cow for Germany’s plansGerman nuclear power plants are set to operate for longer after a policy change from Angela Merkel’s government gave them a short-term extension in return for billions in taxes. […] Reactors built before 1980 would be allowed to operate for a further eight years beyond [2021] limits imposed in 2002, and newer reactors would gain another 14 years.

2010/09/05: BBC: Germany agrees to extend nuclear plant life spanGermany’s coalition government has decided to extend the life span of the country’s nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say. Under the agreement, some plants will now remain in production until the 2030s, instead of being phased out by 2021 as the previous government wanted. There will also be new fees on utility companies to fund renewable energy. Chancellor Angela Merkel argued that renewable sources are not developed enough to abandon nuclear power.

2010/09/11: SMH: Combet to push ahead with carbon priceNewly-promoted cabinet minister Greg Combet says climate change remains a tremendous environmental challenge that demands careful economic reform. Mr Combet is one of the big winners of the new Gillard government ministry, the make-up of which was announced by the prime minister on Saturday. He enters cabinet as climate change and energy efficiency minister, replacing Penny Wong who he assisted for the past year.

2010/09/07: CBC: G20 protester launches $1M lawsuitA lawsuit claiming more than $1 million in damages has been launched against Toronto police by one of the G20 protesters. Natalie Gray says she was shot twice by what she believes were rubber bullets during a demonstration on Sunday, June 27. After the shooting, “she was driven around in a police car for 30 minutes before she was taken to the hospital to receive treatment for her injuries. She was then taken to the detention centre on Eastern Avenue, where she was taunted by police officers, denied access to her asthma medication, strip searched and denied access to counsel, despite her repeated requests to speak to a lawyer. Natalie was detained for approximately 30 hours before she was released on bail the next day,” said a statement from the office of her lawyer, Clayton Ruby. Gray had all charges against her dropped on Aug. 23.

2010/09/07: PostMedia: Ottawa appoints chief climate change negotiatorThe Harper government has quietly filled a key international climate negotiating position it had left vacant for nearly six months. In a statement released Tuesday night, the government announced that Guy Saint-Jacques, a veteran Canadian diplomat, had been appointed as chief negotiator and ambassador for climate change.

2010/09/10: PostMedia: Green appointment panned — Climate-change czar waste of cash: criticsCanada’s newly appointed climate change ambassador says his position is necessary, even though the government had left it vacant for six months through key negotiations on the international stage, including this summer’s G8 and G20 summits in Ontario. In an interview with Postmedia News, Guy Saint-Jacques, the Conservative government’s new chief climate change negotiator, said he would be able to bring greater focus and higher attention to global warming issues which he has followed since the late 1980s.[…]Saint-Jacques’s appointment was met with criticism that the government would be wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on salary, staff and travel costs, without any change in policy.

2010/09/10: EnergyBulletin: Pelosi’s probe: oil sands & America’s addiction to oilUS House of Representatives Speaker and California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi arrived in Canada last week ostensibly to get the real goods on Alberta’s oil sands. As an environmentalist up for re-election in November, Ms. Pelosi is under pressure from her constituents about the carbon footprint of the oil the US gets from its Number One supplier — the Canadian oil sands.[…]Notwithstanding this, unless the US undergoes an epiphany and realizes that a paradigm shift is necessary in order to avoid the inevitable collision of growing consumption of oil and other resources with limits imposed by a finite planet, Canadian oil sands will continue to flow. Ms. Pelosi and other politicians may pay lip service to the obvious environmental constraints but the US really doesn’t have many alternatives as long as it is addicted to oil.

2010/09/08: PostMedia: Martin: Despite Pelosi’s visit, oilpatch should be suspicious the fix is inWhen the third-highest-ranking politician in the Obama administration comes to Canada with her energy sidekick, oilsands producers and royalty addicted premiers rush into line for an arm-twisting opportunity. But House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s voting record, her iffy re-election prospects, her meeting mix of aboriginal and environmental delegations along with her choice of political tagalong suggest the fix is in.

2010/09/09: CBC: Pelosi hears oilsands concernsCanadian environmentalists say they are encouraged by meetings with U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, describing her as committed to reducing fossil fuels and interested in learning more about the impact of Canada’s oilsands. Several environmental and First Nations leaders met Thursday in Ottawa with Pelosi and Ed Markey, chair of the U.S. House of Representatives select committee on energy independence and global warming.

2010/09/07: TStar: Climate change could drag Canadian military onto front linesA navy planner says the Canadian Forces must be ready to be called to the front lines in the battle against the effects of climate change. A recently published article by Lt.-Cmdr. Ray Snook of the defence department’s directorate of maritime strategy says the military may have to step in if conflicts flare over dwindling supplies of food and water.

2010/09/08: CBC: First Nations take Ottawa to court over caribouAlberta First Nations and environmental groups are going to court to force the federal government to protect northern Alberta caribou herds. Lawyers for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Enoch Cree First Nation and the Beaver Lake Cree Nation filed an application for a judicial review Wednesday morning at the Federal Court in Edmonton. “Today is kind of historic for us, because we have finally come to the realization that enough is enough,” said Chief Al Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation. “Our animals are suffering because of the oil exploration that’s going on.” The First Nations will argue that as federal minister of the environment, Jim Prentice is required to issue an emergency order to protect caribou habitat. They will also claim that Prentice must file a recovery plan for the animals, as required under the Species at Risk Act, said Jack Woodward, the Victoria-based lawyer who is representing the First Nations.

2010/09/05: PostMedia: Town opposes industry role in cancer panel — Committee studying disease rates to include oilsands representativesResidents of this northern Alberta town oppose a provincial proposal to have the oilsands industry participate in a health study on cancer rates. Industry members would sit on the oversight committee managing the study, according to the proposal. “I don’t believe industry should be part of this committee,” said Steve Courtoreille, a councillor of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. “If there are people sitting on the oversight committee that are connected (to industry), they’re going to have instructions as to what steps they have to take to look after the best interests of who they’re serving.” The provincial government expressed interest in the study after a report from the Alberta Cancer Board in February 2009 stated cancer rates were 30 per cent higher than expected in Fort Chipewyan.

2010/09/07: CBC: PotashCorp could see other suitors: CEOThe head of PotashCorp. of Saskatchewan Inc. said a number of parties have expressed interest in alternative transactions for the Canadian fertilizer giant and he expects a number of companies to make bids to accompany BHP Billiton’s offer. But chief executive officer Bill Doyle said in a video posting on the company’s website Tuesday that PotashCorp is poised to achieve results that “far surpass BHP’s inadequate offer.”

2010/09/07: CBC: Insurer blames East’s weather for rate hikesAn insurance company is raising its home insurance rates in Atlantic Canada by nearly nine per cent, in part because of extreme weather like Hurricane Earl. Scott Beattie, regional vice-president of business development for Dominion of Canada General Insurance Co., says more frequent catastrophic weather events are to blame for the increase.

2010/09/08: CBC: New rules urged for N.B. hydro-fracking mining — Moratorium needed, Mount Allison University professor saysBradley Walters, a Mount Allison University professor, says the New Brunswick government should prohibit further hydro-fracking projects until more research is conducted.Bradley Walters, a Mount Allison University professor, says the New Brunswick government should prohibit further hydro-fracking projects until more research is conducted. (Courtesy of Bradley Walters) New Brunswick should issue an immediate moratorium on the relatively new mining practice of “hydro-fracking” until more research into potential risks is completed, according to an environmental policy expert. Bradley Walters, a geography and environmental studies professor at Mount Allison University, writes in an election analysis for CBC News that the next New Brunswick government should temporarily prohibit any new projects. The provincial election takes place Sept. 27.

2010/09/07: CBC: 2nd tanker going to Northwest PassageA fuel tanker stuck in the Northwest Passage will be joined later this week by a second tanker that will help siphon some of the 9.5 million litres of diesel on board. The Merchant Vessel Nanny ran aground Sept. 1 on a sandbar about 50 kilometres southwest of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, in Simpson Strait within the Arctic passage.

Something to watch for:

2010/09/07: TNW: AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News SourcesIn a letter to its members last week, Associated Press made the announcement that bloggers should be cited as a news source. This is a significant move from the AP, given that they have a history of not exactly ‘getting on’ with bloggers. Given that such a large news organisation has made a point of recognising bloggers as a viable news source, which they should have done a long time ago, it has much wider implications on how bloggers affect the news agenda and overall news industry.

2010/09/09: NYT:GW: 12 States Ask Supreme Court to Review Greenhouse Gas ‘Nuisance’ CaseChallenging the appropriateness of using the courts to address climate change, Indiana and 11 other states are urging the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that would allow greenhouse gas emitters to be sued for their contribution to global warming. The case, American Electric Power v. Connecticut, is headed to the Supreme Court this fall after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided last year that other states, including Connecticut and New York, had standing to sue coal-fired utilities for their share of the damage caused by climate change. Their lawsuit, joined by environmental advocacy groups and New York City, argues that greenhouse gas emissions can be limited by the courts because they are a “public nuisance” under common law.

2010/09/08: CBC: Bay of Fundy may get world’s largest turbineThe company that recently installed the world’s largest tidal turbine off the coast of Scotland wants to test the same machine in the Bay of Fundy off Nova Scotia. Atlantis Resources Corp. is prepared to install the unit — an 18-metre rotor diameter turbine that can power up to 1,000 homes — at a site near Parrsboro, N.S., next year, Joseph Fifon, the company’s director of corporate development, said Tuesday.

2010/09/07: BBC: Huge growth at largest wind farmA massive expansion is to take place at Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is situated in East Renfrewshire. ScottishPower Renewables is to add another 75 turbines to Whitelee wind farm on Eaglesham Moor by 2012.[…]The expansion will see its generating capacity increase from 322MW to 539MW…

2010/09/09: EnergyBulletin: Steady Growth of Wind Industry Moves EU Closer to Green GoalsEurope is in the midst of a wind energy boom, with the continent now installing more wind power capacity than any other form of energy. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the European Wind Energy Association’s Christian Kjaer describes his vision of how wind can lead the way in making Europe’s electricity generation 100 percent renewable by 2050.

2010/09/07: CBC: Electric car ends coast-to-coast tripAn engineering student from B.C. is claiming to be the first person to cross mainland Canada in an electric car. Ricky Gu, 21, arrived in Halifax in his converted 1972 Volkswagen Beetle on Monday night. “It feels great,” he told reporters. “I can’t believe we made it without a single problem at all.” Gu built the electric car himself, funding the project through grants from the University of British Columbia. Sponsors donated about $25,000 in parts. But the cost of driving coast to coast was much cheaper. “It cost about $3 for every 300 kilometres. So 6,500 kilometres, it cost about $64 in electricity!” said Gu.

2010/09/08: TEC: It’s The Real Thing: The Power of KochWe are at a critical juncture, as a backlash appears to be derailing action on climate change. If progressive groups want to address this threat, we need to understand the interests, strategies, and cultural politics at play.

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

“We are running out of traditional energy sources, which can be compared to our house being on fire. While that happens, many people linger around the burning building and pretend to be firemen, mimicking their actions, carrying some equipment, shouting commands – but actually they have no real water, no real skills, no appropriate tools. That way your house will burn to the ground because the “real” firemen never showed up, as everybody thinks there are more than enough firemen on site.” -Robert Rapier

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